TACTICS/CONFLICT MANAGEMENT: PERIOD ONE AND TWO, THURSDAY

[idontlooktired.livejournal.com]

"Good morning, class." Harriet's smile might be a little worrying. "Last week we discussed a tried and true conflict management trick - identifying your conflict management style and likening it to an animal. Today," she waved at the Danger Shop door, "you're going to get to try those styles out for real. Once you step through the doors, you'll become that animal. You'll find a fully moddable environment that suits each animal. All you need to do is enjoy your new and temporary bodies, and oh yes, don't get caught."

It would be a while before someone else showed up in the Danger Shop. Lieutenant Kerrigan had sent out handwavey notice to her class to meet here early-- and early she was. "Morning, Dean Jones."

"Good morning, Lieutenant. Conflict Management students, this is Lieutenant Kerrigan," she said, nodding at Kerrigan. "Tactics Students, I'm Dean Jones."

"...I think they know who you are, Harriet," Kerrigan noted, succesfully winning her fight against the urge to rub her forehead. "Kids, Dean Jones is turning her kids into animals today as a lesson in conflict management." She had no idea how that worked, but god help her, she was going to run with it after the weekend she'd had. "Your armament for today will be this," and she presented the class with a piece of chalk, "Your job'll be to ferret out these fu-- guys," she nodded her head at the other students, "From the actual animals habitating the environment you'll soon be entering. Bag 'em and tag 'em."

"And your job," Harriet continued smoothly, turning to her class, "is to avoid any bagging or tagging of any kind. You can do this in a number of ways. Hide, run away, pretend to be an ordinary animal, of which there are plenty types and numbers fully moddable by both classes, convincing them not to chalk you - and you are free to promise anything you like in exchange, if you can discover a way to communicate with your hunter - disable them by trapping them in a natural hazard, or anything else yuo can come up with."

"Don't buy any of it," Kerrigan advised her class, with a smirk. "That will be all." She shot Harriet a sideways look. "Get at 'em, kids. Time for coffee."

[ooc: The Danger Shop is set up a a huge landscape, with any number of different environments, so just identify what sort of environment you're in: e.g. snowy plains, lake, tundra, mountains, forest etc etc. Conflict Management students - if you didn't pick an animal last week, go for it and pick one now. If you don't like the animal you picked last week given today's exercies, feel free to decide that it didn't 'properly reflect your conflict management style' - Harriet doesn't know what you picked, and I'm more interested in you having fun.]

Comments

Sign in -- Tactics Students

[idontlooktired.livejournal.com]

Sign in ye tactics and chalk!

Re: Sign in -- Tactics Students

[socksofcool.livejournal.com]

Seely Booth

Sign in -- Conflict Management Students

[idontlooktired.livejournal.com]

Sign in ye managing o' conflicts!

Re: Sign in -- Conflict Management Students

[neurotic-witch.livejournal.com]

Chris Halliwell

Listen to the lecture/talk to your new classmates

[idontlooktired.livejournal.com]

Wonder just how much your teachers were drinking when they came up with this. (It was a lot)

Re: Listen to the lecture/talk to your new classmates

[socksofcool.livejournal.com]

Seely grinned, this looked like fun.

Re: Listen to the lecture/talk to your new classmates

[neurotic-witch.livejournal.com]

Chris boggled a bit at the day's assignment and hoped none of the tactics students would get overzealous.

Re: Listen to the lecture/talk to your new classmates

[time-flyer-5.livejournal.com]

Good thing Jen wasn't drinking coffee when she heard the assignment, or there would have been an extremely undignified spittake.

Re: Listen to the lecture/talk to your new classmates

[witchy-prue.livejournal.com]

Prue had been thinking about what side she was going to take since she was in both classes. After a few minutes of thought she decided with the Conflict Management side since how often do you get to turn into a lion?

Dogs, on the other hand, were a different matter. Prue seemed to turn into those a lot.

Re: Listen to the lecture/talk to your new classmates

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

Lana really didn't think this was something she wanted to do today. But what choice did she really have?

Re: Listen to the lecture/talk to your new classmates

[athosborn.livejournal.com]

As strange as the idea was, Teyla was quite intrigued by the concept.

Re: Listen to the lecture/talk to your new classmates

[redintraining.livejournal.com]

Sky's face said it all. He was rather horrified by the idea of being hunted as a lion.

Re: Listen to the lecture/talk to your new classmates

[sarcasm-guy.livejournal.com]

Sokka raised his hand. "What exactly are we supposed to do with the chalk?" he asked.

Hunt and be Hunted

[idontlooktired.livejournal.com]

Conflict Management? Roam free and be tricky bastards! Tactics? Bag the fools. And mark them with your stick of chalk. Ahoy!

Re: Hunt and be Hunted

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

Dolphin!Lana swam far out into the Danger Shop ocean and joined a pod of other dolphins.

Re: Hunt and be Hunted

[athosborn.livejournal.com]

One nice thing about being a zebra, Teyla realized, was that the stripes were made to help with camouflage. She headed for the grass, and tried to blend in.

Re: Hunt and be Hunted

[redintraining.livejournal.com]

Sky was a lion.

Slinking through the grass on a sunny savannah.

Soon he could join in with the hunters, but for now... he was the hunted, despite being a predator. Being a lion wasn't the worst thing he could have chosen, he supposed, but it was still very bizarre.

Re: Hunt and be Hunted

[notafairmaiden.livejournal.com]

Gwynn had taken Ms. Jones serious when she had said last week that her animal didn't have to be on the handout.

That would be why Falcon!Gwynn was high up in the forest trees.

Talk to the TAs

[idontlooktired.livejournal.com]

Once they be here.

Re: Talk to the TAs

[neurotic-witch.livejournal.com]

Chris was there.

Re: Talk to the TAs

[moonbrain-tam.livejournal.com]

River was there too.

Talk to Kerrigan

[on-her-korhal.livejournal.com]

Who may be smirking a little much. And idly drinking her coffee.

Re: Talk to Kerrigan

[redintraining.livejournal.com]

Sky approached Kerrigan before class began and properly saluted her, intending to apologize for what his wee self had done over the weekend.

"Ah... ma'am?"

Talk to Harriet

[idontlooktired.livejournal.com]

Whose smile looks disturbingly like Kerrigan's smirk, though she's drinking tea.

OOC

[idontlooktired.livejournal.com]

Brought to you by two extremely knackered professors. ... Arrr.

Re: OOC

[suit-of-awesome.livejournal.com]

You know, I've bagged one prime minister type...